The Social Market Economy

The Social Market Economy and the Varieties of Capitalism Introduction.- A Social Market Economy Contemporary Analysis and Theory.- Section I The Theory of the Economic Order.- 1 The Social Market Economy: The Main Ideas and Their Influence on Economic Policy.- Discussion Summary.- 2 The Idea of Economic Order in Contemporary Russia.- 3 Has the Market Economy Still a Chance? On the Lack of a Disciplining Challenge.- 4 The Chances for Economic Order in Post-Soviet Russia.- 5 The Social Market Economy: Social Equilibration of Capitalism and Consideration of the Totality of the Economic Order Notes on Alfred Müller-Armack.- Discussion Summary.- Section II The Ethics of the Econimic Order.- 6 The Ethics of Business in Russia.- 7 One's Own, Proper. What is Property in its Essence?.- Section III The Repersonalisation of Socialized Property.- 8 Privatisation in the New Lands of the Former German Democratic Republic.- Discussion Summary.- 9 Reprivatisation and Economic Transformation in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union.- Section IV The Privatisation of the Agricultural Sector.- 10 Independent Family Farms Versus Hierarchical Forms of Organisation Spontaneous Emergence of Property Rights Structures in Russian Agriculture.- 11 Russian Law and Land Privatisation.- Section V The Economic Order in Private and in Public Law.- 12 Law and Economic Order in the Structures of Russian Everyday Life.- 13 A Symbiosis with Reserve: Social Market Economy and Legal Order in Germany.- Discussion Summary.- B Social Market Economy. Four Basic Texts.- Section I The Theory of Economic Order.- 14 The Principles of the Social Market Economy (1965).- Section II The Ethics of the Econimic Order.- 15 The Ethical Content of the Social Market Economy (1988).- Section III Attempts to Form aBroader Basis for the Ownership of the Means of Production in the Social Market Ecnomy.- 16 The Formation of Private Property in the Hands of Workers (1956).- Section IV The Theory of Competition.- 17 The

Peter Koslowski ist Gründungsdirektor des Forschungsinstituts für Philosophie Hannover und Professor für Philosophie und Politische Ökonomie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.